Disgraced BBC newsreader Huw Edwards sent “controlling and abusive” messages to a teenager whose parents accused him of grooming their child.
The exchanges reveal Edwards telling the male, said to have a drug problem, he loves him before launching a foul-mouthed tirade, The Sun reports.
Edwards, 63, was spared jail on Monday after admitting accessing indecent images of children as young as seven.
A documentary now claims the veteran presenter messaged a young man who was sending him sexual images in return for payments of as much as £35,000.
At one point he allegedly tells the vulnerable teenager, who he wants to meet him in Wales: “I f***ing love you...but you kill me x”.
In another he says: “You think my life revolves around you?
“Get f***ing real.”
The young person was at the centre of the scandal that first emerged last summer over payments by Edwards to a 17-year-old for sexually explicit images.
The youngster’s mother told the newspaper of her shock when she discovered the texts between her son and Edwards.
She said: “When I first saw the messages I felt sick, so disgusted.
“Sick to my stomach. There were so many.
“On New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day. Even When Huw was with his family…
“Calling my son a ‘good boy’. Sending him kisses and love hearts…
“Even telling him he loves him. But then others, more aggressive, calling my son all sorts.
“Threatening my boy.”
Between December 2022 and February last year, Edwards allegedly calls the young man “a kn*b”, a “f***ing disaster” and an “ungrateful t**t”, The Sun reveals in its YouTube documentary, Huw Edwards: Unmasked.
The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police said in July last year that no criminal offence had been committed by the presenter and neither force was taking any further action in relation to the allegations.
The disgraced newsreader was later charged over separate images found on his phone of children sent by convicted paedophile Alex Williams.
The star admitted three charges of “making” indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by Williams over WhatsApp.
At Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Edwards held his hands together and leaned forward throughout his sentencing hearing as he was handed six months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.
Chief Magistrate, district judge Paul Goldspring, said his reputational and financial damage was the “natural consequence of your behaviour which you brought upon yourself”.
He also told Edwards he would be subject to 25 rehabilitation sessions and be placed on the sex offender treatment programme for 40 days.
Edwards was also ordered to pay £3,000 in prosecution costs and was told he would be put on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.
His former employer said Edwards had “betrayed not just the BBC, but audiences who put their trust in him” – adding that the corporation was “appalled by his crimes”.
It has asked Edwards to repay the £200,000 salary he has received since his arrest.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said on Monday following the sentencing that he was “shocked and appalled” by the case.
The Standard has tried to contact a representative of Edwards for comment.
